Soloists

Carolyn Sampson

Equally at home on the concert and opera stages, Carolyn Sampson has enjoyed notable successes in the UK, throughout Europe and the rest of the world.

Last season marked an incredible achievement for Carolyn as she celebrated her recording legacy with the release of her 100th album as a featured solo artist. In 2024 she was awarded an OBE in the King’s New Year Honours, was elected an Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Music and was the winner of the Gramophone Artist of the Year Award.

On the opera stage she has appeared with English National Opera, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Scottish Opera and Opéra de Paris, amongst others, and she regularly performs at the BBC Proms and with orchestras including the Bach Collegium Japan, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Vienna Symphony Orchestra and with numerous orchestras in the UK & USA.

A consummate recitalist, Carolyn performs regularly at the Wigmore Hall and has given recitals at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Saintes and Aldeburgh Festivals, Barcelona, Freiburg, Oper Frankfurt, Pierre Boulez Saal Berlin, Vienna Konzerthaus, Carnegie Hall and on tour in Japan.

This season includes Haydn Die Schöpfung/Creation, with both the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris under Masato Suzuki and with the CBSO under Kazuki Yamada, another European tour with Bach Collegium Japan, solo programmes with La Scintilla with Riccardo Minassi and the Freiburger Barockorchester, and returns to the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks and Dresdner Philharmonie.

(2024/25 season)